BURUNDI: SUCCESS OF ELECTIONS CONTINGENT
ON DISARMAMENT AND MILITARY DISCIPLINE

Despite numerous delays dating back since
Burundi's largest rebel group the FDD entered into a peace agreement with
the government in November 2003, the process of demobilization and reintegration
of both former rebel groups and the national army is scheduled to begin
at the end of this month.

On Friday 27 August, the Angolan Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Luanda held
a meeting to update NGOs on issues relating to the repatriation of
Angolan refugees from neighbouring countries in southern Africa.
Weekly and twice weekly convoys have started from the Democratic Republic
of the Congo and Zambia to various cities in around Angola.